This ones a tough read. I need a dictionary every other page, lol. I'm starting to think Darwin had a pigeon fetish ...
Orwell wrote:krzT wrote:Fundamentals of Corporate Finance: 8th Edition
If you don't want to read it, I'd gladly take if off your hands. It sounds quite (droll) informative for a primer.
My reading has fallen quite a bit recently I'd say, instead of any real books lately it's been science mags and The Economist.
As for finding places to buy books cheap, I've gotten good service from www.abebooks.com and many old books I'd never find elsewhere for a dollar.
Sukunai wrote:Sadly nothing from Dune series, it finished with Sandworms of Dune
Mithroch wrote:Sukunai wrote:Sadly nothing from Dune series, it finished with Sandworms of Dune
Brian Herbert is the worst thing to happen to his father's legacy (other than Frank's death). Frank gave his readers a little credit for being intelligent... Brian thinks he needs to spell everything out, waisting pages (and my time) over explaining what's going on. His characters are unimaginative (with the exception of perhaps Erasmus) and really... I feel nothing for them. I slogged through all of the Prelude to Dune... and the first two Legends of Dune before I gave up. My buddy stayed the course... but he assures me I did the right thing by stopping.
Jerry Holkins sums up my feelings well here http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/10/15/
Sukunai wrote:Nothing from Goodkind's Sword of Truth series, it finished too

Coffee 54 wrote:Mithroch wrote:Sukunai wrote:Sadly nothing from Dune series, it finished with Sandworms of Dune
Brian Herbert is the worst thing to happen to his father's legacy (other than Frank's death). Frank gave his readers a little credit for being intelligent... Brian thinks he needs to spell everything out, waisting pages (and my time) over explaining what's going on. His characters are unimaginative (with the exception of perhaps Erasmus) and really... I feel nothing for them. I slogged through all of the Prelude to Dune... and the first two Legends of Dune before I gave up. My buddy stayed the course... but he assures me I did the right thing by stopping.
Jerry Holkins sums up my feelings well here http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/10/15/
I actually stopped after God Emperor of Dune. I know there were two more books by Frank, but Emperor was a good stopping point and I didn't feel up to starting a new story arc. Especially knowing it wouldn't be finished by the original author.
BasharOfTheAges wrote:Anderson wrote a lot of mass market sci-fi geared towards teens (like the Star Wars books Ileia is apparently fawning over) and in that market, anything requiring any thinking skills is very bad.

Ileia wrote:BasharOfTheAges wrote:Anderson wrote a lot of mass market sci-fi geared towards teens (like the Star Wars books Ileia is apparently fawning over) and in that market, anything requiring any thinking skills is very bad.
The only thing I've ever fawned over by him was the "Tales From" anthologies, but he didn't actually write those all himself, he just "edited" what a bunch of other authors did. Most of what he did was the "Young Jedi Knight" books, and yeah, they were geared towards teens. Like, 13 year olds. And for your information, I've never read them. So nya.I keep trying to have them moved to the Young Adult section where I work, but they keep putting the things back in Science Fiction!
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